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[Music] [Music] no matter how many times life knocked Crystal Bradshaw down she always got
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back up she survived a rough and impoverished childhood after escaping a painful childhood Crystal ended up in a
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marriage Rife with allegations of abuse Crystal's last straw in her marriage was when she and her husband
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filed for bankruptcy and the family lost their home Crystal was back living in poverty
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and uncertainty a future she hoped that her son would never experience but then Crystal got back up she filed for
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divorce earned her GED and was attending class classes at a community college she
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had successfully navigated a 180° life turn from bad to good and somehow she stuck The Landing because of
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her actions and strong will through years of adversity Crystal could finally see the light now shining brighter than
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ever at the end of that dark tunnel she did it Crystal Bradshaw had put herself on the path to better days she was on on
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her way to a better life for both herself and her son unfortunately someone or someone's
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were get in the way of that path Crystal would not live to see her son's eighth birthday a day of Celebration led to
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murder a house fire and the many Mysteries that remain this is the still unsolved homicide case of Crystal
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Bradshaw and this is true crime garage [Music] this week we are off to a location
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called Boiling Springs Boiling Springs is in Spartanburg County South Carolina Boiling Springs was named after a small
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spring in the center of town that appeared as if it were boiling and would sometimes shoot water about 6 ft into
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the air once the land in this area became more developed and a shopping center was built people started to
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arrive they built up the area and the spring ceased to boil the spring was eventually cleaned up and a small Park
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was built around it but that's how this area this town got its name in current day the population is over 12,000 people
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our case this week takes us back to 2007 and the population then in Boiling Springs was closer to 7,000 ,500 people
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Crystal Dawn Kennedy Bradshaw was born September 22nd 1979 to Danny Kennedy and Myra leadford in time Crystal's parents
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marriage would dissolve and end in divorce Crystal was raised poor and suffered abuse at the hand of a family
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member Crystal grew up in a blended family with half siblings from both her parents additional marriages despite all
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of her childhood hardships she still had the strength to pick herself up and to try to make a good life she dropped out
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of high school thinking entering the Working World full-time would allow her to find the happiness that was so
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elusive to her in her childhood she worked a number of jobs and then after a while crystal found herself working at a
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place called Big Daddy's she was holding down a waitressing gig there and making
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decent money Big Daddy's was a local restaurant a mom and pop casual joint while working there Crystal Kennedy met
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David Bradshaw Jr David liked Crystal immediately he worked hard to get Crystal's attention and triy to convince
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her to go out on dates with him eventually wearing her down she finally agreed they started dating and things
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seemed fine until at some point in this relation ship captain David's anger and jealousy issues reared its ugly head and
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this wasn't just something that was kept on wraps within the four walls of their
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living situation this is something that people outside of those four walls were aware of Crystal and David moved into a
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small house they started life together with David's son from his previous marriage and living with David was
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becoming more and more difficult for crystal this mainly due to David's temper and from how others perceived
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their relationship to be at this time those people did not think that David was treating Crystal very well at all
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crystal hoped things would change when she became pregnant and in July of 2000 Crystal gave birth to a healthy baby boy
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that the couple would name Jacob what's old saying you can [ __ ] in one hand wishing the other one and see which one
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fills up first even though Crystal wanted things to get better things were not going to get better just because
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they had a child there are many allegations that David was an abusive person an abusive father and husband and
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years passed and the family would eventually move to a larger house this comes with larger bills and as it would
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turn out the couple could not afford the extra bills the extra expenses or the large house this would be the beginning
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of the end of Crystal and David's marriage perhaps it was the final nudge that Krystal needed to finally end
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things with David as the bills were piling up Crystal asked family for help but everyone knew that helping to pay
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one month's mortgage would only prolong this problem eventually the bradshaws filed for bankruptcy and they lost the
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their home in foreclosure this was too much for Crystal to take she grew up in poverty and wanted a better life for her
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son Jacob as a result Crystal ended the marriage with David and she moved into her own apartment Crystal was trying to
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make some changes not just for herself but now for her family and she was going to take a new job at the peach blossom
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Diner Chrystal was determined to rebuild her life after this marriage she wanted
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a better life for herself and for her now now seven-year-old son Jacob the new job at the peach blossom Diner proved
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advantageous for crystal for a couple of reasons it gave her the needed Financial
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Freedom from her ex-husband David it also brought a new man into her life his name is Johnny petris the owner of the
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diner he was one of the more well-to-do men in Boiling Springs at this time making his money from real estate
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transactions as well as running the successful Diner there was an age gap between Crystal who's a young woman and
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this older successful man so Crystal at this time when they started dating would
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have been 28 years old Johnny was 65 but regardless of this age Gap they became an item Johnny had a foster son his name
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is Shawn and and it's been said around town loud and clear that Shawn was not happy with his
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father new dating situation especially after Johnny purchased a house for Crystal so she's dating this older guy
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who's pretty well off well too and as a nice gift as a nice gesture of their new
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newly budding romance he buys Crystal a small house where she and Jacob can live
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which obviously there's G to be some people that think that she's using him for the money and he's using her because
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she's young and attractive but my my grandma used to tell me you can love a rich one as much as you can a poor one
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yeah the when money's involved everybody has an opinion Outsider opinion of situations whether it's doing right or
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doing wrong I say leave that up to the person spending the money and the person accept the gifts yeah but you know he
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has wrinkly balls but these two were an item whether Shawn liked it or not these
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two were moving forward with their relationship Crystal and Shawn knew each other well because Shawn ran the diner
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most of the time in the evening shifts he was married with a daughter and he had a successful career as a firefighter
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so he's a firefighter and he runs this Diner on his off days Shawn did not hide his dislike of crystal or maybe it was
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just the relationship that he did not like but as said it was clear to everyone that knew Crystal knew Johnny
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knew Shawn that he was not approving of this relationship well it brings up a lot of questions was he jealous of his
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father because the father was with a this young attractive woman did he want to be with Crystal or did he view it as
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crystal is just using my father and trying to steal his his money and the more money he spends on her the less
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money I'm going to receive one day that brings up a lot of questions yeah Sean had his own wife and family and house
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and he he had his own successes but I'm guessing he's thinking that his father's
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not spending his money appropriately later in life Crystal's sister worked at the diner as well and she would be one
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that would later point out that look it was clear that Shawn did not like my sister for like you said Captain there
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could be a lot of different reasons or problems with the reason that he had a problem with Crystal but again it was
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clear to everybody now Crystal with this new job but old balls new boyfriend new
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housing situation she's landing on her feet pretty well here she's starting to gain
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some stability in her life with her life moving forward as we said in the trailer
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she earned a GED she was enrolled at a community college she's studying to be a dental
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assistant so she veered off the path for a while maybe it was her ex-husband's fault maybe it was hers maybe it was
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both of them combined but she's now on the right path as good as her life was going her friends lives and these are
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two people that are very were very close to Crystal at the time years prior and then leading up to Crystal's death this
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is her friends Annette and Ashley these two their lives are heading in the complete opposite direction so they're
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not getting their lives together they're not on a path to better days in fact they're on the path to darker and harder
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times it's reported that in 2007 both of them were struggling with drug addiction
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and they were starting to become involved in criminal activity a lot of this is pretty petty crime type stuff
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now as their paths went in different directions it's been said that jealousy and anger and accusations grew between
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Crystal and her friends Crystal had had enough of her friend Ashley and she was going to start taking control to end
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their relationship she's going to break off this friend ship as several people have said Crystal was even telling
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people that Ashley was stalking her Crystal had told people that Ashley would sit down at the end of the block
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and watch to see who was going to visit Crystal who's coming and going from her house once Crystal's guests would go
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inside Ashley would then call Crystal on her phone and then an argument would break out so she's
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Crystal was of the belief that her friend friend Ashley was trying to disrupt her life now whether it was out
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of jealousy or anger or multiple reasons it's difficult to say yeah ring ring ring I'm your baby reindeer well you
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have friends that are all similar in Age and what we do know Captain is that Ashley did work at this diner with
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Crystal some have wondered was she jealous that this successful man Johnny who owns the diner
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didn't take notice of her the way that he did of Crystal which ended up a relationship that is financially
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benefiting Crystal yeah and I don't want to speculate too much but like you said
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is it a situation where she just wasn't noticed by this older gentleman with money or is it a situation that he did
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notice her for a time period but then switched his attention to Crystal so the thought there
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is from all the outsiders looking in their speculation has always remained that spit it out Ashley was jealous of
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Crystal because she has this new boyfriend who not only buys her this house that she can live in with her son
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but it's pretty well known that he's handing her cash walking around money regularly yeah maybe she's into old
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balls she likely could have been very jealous of that as well now we have her other friend Crystal other friend
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Annette she's wrapped up in addiction as well and it's believed that jealousy was
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destroying her friendship with Crystal as well and this is a little bit thicker than the situation with Ashley so this
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may have been motivated her jealousy may have been motivated by money but it also
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sounds like it was pretty well understood around town that Annette's husband had a thing had a crush on
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Crystal and that in public Gatherings around other people where people took notice he had made passes at her yeah
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that's not good that's that's what we call nasty it seems like Crystal had no interest in him so there's no conflict
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of there being a relationship between This Woman's husband and Crystal it just seems like she's probably aggravated at
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the situation that her husband has a thing for her friend and is not so subtle about it yeah it's a real douche
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bger move so it's been said by several people around town that Crystal would have a decent amount of cash on
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her at any given time and this is because again her boyfriend Johnny's regularly handing her
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cash and it sounds if people who knew Crystal and knew Johnny and knew of their relationship and knew of the
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situation they all seem to be under this idea that Crystal likely had several hundreds of dollars of cash on her at
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any given time CH ching and that Johnny was regularly giving her let's call it an an allowance if you will but he's
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giving her cash almost daily yeah I think they call this situation a sugar daddy and sugar baby situation because
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of this situation we have several people that are saying Annette was always asking Crystal for money Crystal
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sometimes would give her friend the money most times not because Crystal feared that Annette was using that money
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to pay for her drug addiction well and her friends are probably going hey you didn't earn this money you're just being
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handed this money why can't you just give me this money so I can get my fix and you can go back to your boyfriend
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and ask him for more money later and I feel like we should be clear here because my understanding after assessing
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the situation is that yes while these these friends are on clearly different paths I believe Annette and Ashley at
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the time if they were addicted they were functioning addicts they were they were
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holding down jobs and relationships if you want to call it that but the main strain on any relationship that we have
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here is the strain between their friendships right Ashley and Annette versus Chris Crystal and others have
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said that when she would deny giving money to Annette or helping out her friends this was creating
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a driving a wedge you know there's already a divide in their relationship but this just kept driving a wedge
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further and deeper into that divide of the relationship and do you think these two friends were kind of ganging up on
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her hey you're you're cutting a out you're not giving either one of us money so so now we're going to have this
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hatred towards you but it's a collective hatred that's the way it sounds to me I
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can't say 100% that that is the case but that's the way that it sounds to me because the three of them were all
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friends together this was this was a group a little pack of friends here and at some point two are going the opposite
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way of the one right and they just keep getting further apart the other thing too what it appears to me Captain is
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like that Crystal's walking this tight wire of in trying to do this Balancing Act of how do I how do I tell them I'm
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not you can't expect certain things of me just because of our friendship I'm not just going to hand you money even if
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somebody is just handing me money I'm not handing it to you right but also like trying to keep the door open
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because they go back like is there some hope that we can keep this friendship maintain this friendship are my friends
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just stuck in a rut and going through a phase and one day they'll clean up or get out of this and we can still be
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friends so that's a anybody that's had to kind of do that they know exactly what we're talking about here it's a
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balancing act that is incredibly difficult because you're looking at friends going I don't know if I want to
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keep being friends with you because of a b and c but I don't having a difficult time fully closing that door slamming
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that door shut because we go back way back I say cut those greedy [ __ ] off but it looks to me and several people
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have told us this here captain and it only seems to make sense that I think that Crystal knew while she probably
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still held a a place in her heart for her two friends right I think that she knew that if she was going to have the
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life that she wanted the path that she was C ly on for her and her her son that she might have to completely sever ties
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with her old life and that would mean at some point likely ending the friendship
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with Annette and Ashley well they've done studies on this you you kind of become the sum of the five people you
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hang out with the most and so maybe chryst will got to the point where hey I'm trying to get my stuff together
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you're not trying to do anything you hang out with coconuts you get nowhere let's get to the day in question here
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Captain the day in question that we're going to be talking about and where the mystery remains this was in 2007 it's a
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typical Saturday typical Saturday in the life of Crystal Bradshaw she Rose early she so she could
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arrive at work for her morning shift that started at 5:00 a.m. remember this is a diner that's one of the best things
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about a Diner you go there you get you a beautiful delicious greasy breakfast to
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start your day and everybody loves it and a she's there for the 500 a.m. shift she always took that morning shift a lot
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of that was based upon her life right her her dayto day and her dayto day her main concern is her son Jacob she wants
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to be able to be the mom that can pick her son up from school at the end of each school day now the time period
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we're talking about is in the summer so on this day Crystal drops Jacob off at his father's house the night before this
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is not a perfect situation this is not ideal remember we talked about the allegations against her ex-husband my
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guess is Crystal's only doing this out of necessity I have an early shift in the morning drop him off at his dad's
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house and then I will see Jacob the next day was the plan she didn't at this time have anyone
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else in her life to watch him when she was busy working so at around 2 o' 2 p.m. that afternoon after
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her shift she goes and he she goes and she picks up her son from her ex's house she stopped at a grocery store this was
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to purchase snacks and drinks for a small gathering so she's hosting a little gathering with some of her
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friends and this will be at her newly acquired house that was gifted to her from her boyfriend
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Johnny she had only lived in this house the addresses 107 North Brook Street for
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a couple of months and she's still trying to balance her new life and her old friends she knew these were not
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people that if you ignored them that they would just go away so again trying to walk that tight wire of do I end this
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friendship or try to maintain it she's going to invite her friends over that we've already discussed Anette and
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Ashley to hang out that day some of these items we can put a Tim stamp on and we know happened by later findings
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and details that would be made public so one of these details that we can surmise
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is that after returning from the grocery store at some point she's going to get cleaned up so she can have her friends
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over and Host this little gathering she throws her work clothes that she wore the at the diner that day into the
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washer around 5:00 p.m. her guest start to arrive and this from my understanding
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Captain it's going to be a rather small gathering I don't have every name of every person that was in attendance
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loser we may or may not have that information I should clarify right but it was a small group of people the
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people that we do know that attended that evening was Crystal's friend Annette and her
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husband Jean and we also have her friend Ashley and her husband Allan but remember it's a very small town so most
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likely everybody at the party knew everybody the other thing that the reason why I'm trying to to lay this out
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properly here Captain is there's a lot of information to suggest that it was only the five of them present at the
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home for this small get together what's been reported is that there was stress in the air immediately remember there
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these this group of friends they're already having their problems now they're all at the Johnny gifted home of
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Crystal hanging out and I I guess trying to be friends or or maintain this friendship by this point
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we should be clear too Crystal and David have been separated for almost a year at
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this point and they were things were better between the two of them but they were still trying to sort out some the
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details of their divorce and like anybody that's gone through a separation or even people that have remained
00:28:50
married will tell you when you go from school to no school for your children that first couple of weeks is a
00:28:58
balancing act itself you're trying to to keep the kids on their schedule while maintaining your work schedule at the
00:29:05
same time and not having the added benefit of school for your your kids to attend at this time but if I'm law
00:29:13
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Gathering to rekindle their friendship or do they look at this as an opportunity
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/ garage and we are back cheers mates cheers to you Colonel cheers Captain tall cans in the air to everybody out
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there in listener land we do have David and Jacob who are at the house so David is Crystal's ex and Jacob is her son and
00:34:32
David comes to pick up Jacob but he doesn't have to just like you know pull up and honk the horn and the the little
00:34:39
boy comes running out he goes inside he's inside for a period of time and then takes Jacob with him and then those
00:34:47
two are on their way Jacob was going to be spending the night at his father's house that evening so now this is when
00:34:56
you go from PG mode to adult time in your gathering at your home well I just want to point
00:35:05
something out people that would know that Crystal would be home alone probably her
00:35:10
boyfriend obviously her ex because he's taking their child and now her two friends that she's been in disagreements
00:35:19
with for the past little while all those individuals know that she's going to be
00:35:25
home alone there's it's been reported that there was a little pot smoking some beer and
00:35:33
some wine at this Gathering after Jacob left but nothing hardcore it's also been
00:35:39
said that Crystal would not allow anything above and beyond that in her new home the report that I read said
00:35:47
there was nothing hardcore or parkour the thing here is though as the night drags on or even the the early part of
00:35:56
the night Crystal's face with with another issue she works again the following morning at 5:00 a.m. at the
00:36:02
diner fun times so when you are on that that schedule on that cycle you are a you're going to turn in early because
00:36:11
you have to be up earlier than most so at some point Crystal will ask the guest to leave and this was approximately at
00:36:20
700 p.m. she had to work the early shift at the diner the next day likely wanted
00:36:26
to relax for a while for having to go to sleep that night Crystal's company was about to leave when there was an
00:36:35
argument Ashley started an argument with Crystal over her boyfriend Johnny and said that she did not like the way that
00:36:43
Crystal had been treating her lately then Annette asked Crystal for some cash okay so you have a disagreement that
00:36:52
breaks out between the two friends and then the other friend is openly asking Crystal for cash hey can I borrow some
00:37:00
money in front of the other guests and this hints to what you were talking about before the break was this supposed
00:37:07
to be just a friendly get together hey show me your new place we can have good conversation and catch up or did Annette
00:37:15
or Ashley or both view this as an opportunity right let's get friendly with our friend again and maybe she will
00:37:23
give us some cash or we could borrow air quotes borrow some cash from her Crystal
00:37:30
denied this and was frankly insulted and says you know what everybody needs to leave she she doesn't deny this event
00:37:40
happening she's denying giving the money to the fr the story that has been told since that night is that cash was asked
00:37:50
for Crystal did not give it to them in fact she was upset by this enough to just ask everybody to leave so she asked
00:37:58
everyone to leave the group does leave probably a little angry don't let the door hit you now we have Crystal on the
00:38:06
other side of the door empty house she's probably relieved that her guests have left for the evening probably exhausted
00:38:14
she's been up since the early morning hours and she's probably trying to unwind and get ready to go to sleep at
00:38:22
some point so she she moved her work clothes that we she had previously put in the washer and she put them into the
00:38:30
dryer and we do know that she put on her pajamas this part of the story is incredibly significant especially if it
00:38:43
holds true for every single night that she had lived in this house remember she's only been in this house captain
00:38:51
for a couple of months leading up to the night in question right several people this is not just one
00:38:59
person several people had said because she lived there her and her son alone most nights or even without her son some
00:39:10
nights her by herself she was uncomfortable with the living situation and she would always
00:39:17
turn on not just leave on lights we're talking about actively turn on some lights before going to bed well Crystal
00:39:26
lived with it a man for a very long time and even if he wasn't the best in the relationship there was probably some
00:39:34
sense of security or some sense of safe that she felt with her ex-husband being in the house one thing that we do know
00:39:41
that Crystal was in the habit of doing every day that she was in this new house was that she would turn on the light to
00:39:50
the living room and the light to the kitchen before going to bed this was something that was also noticed by
00:39:58
neighbors right you could see when you look out and it's dark outside you look across the street or you walking down
00:40:07
the street or going outside for any reason it's pretty obvious when a neighbor has a light on these neighbors
00:40:13
would later say that these two lights the house was always lit up on the inside at
00:40:20
night and again this is coming from the kitchen in the living room one thing that would be different
00:40:28
and this is key because we're trying to key in on the time of death here in Crystal Bradshaw's
00:40:38
case she did not turn on those lights never came on that night like they would every other night someone can make the
00:40:46
argument that something happened to Crystal before that time period right and I think this shrinks the window
00:40:52
quite a bit right because we know she put on her pajamas so she's in the Act of her routine leading up to going to
00:41:01
bed but part of that routine was always turning on the light in the front room and the kitchen or they're already on
00:41:09
and leaving them on however that portion of her routine she did not get to before
00:41:16
whatever happened happened that night before the horeshit went down we do know too another thing that is key here
00:41:23
that's been said by all that knew her is that she always locked her doors she wasn't one of these types that would you
00:41:30
know it's not that kind of town it's a small place I never lock my doors no she was a always lock your door kind of
00:41:36
person the reason why this case is so fascinating to me is one we have so many people close to her that would know that
00:41:45
she's going to be at home alone so if they have some Vendetta against her but necessarily don't want to hurt her and
00:41:54
her child here's an opportunity and and then on top of that number two is you have a lot of people with maybe they're
00:42:02
not the strongest motives but you could make an argument ex-husband mad that things didn't work out maybe wants full
00:42:10
custody maybe doesn't want to uh pay his support maybe he's jealous that she's now getting ahead with the help of this
00:42:19
older gentleman the older gentleman there's motives there maybe again doesn't like the situation regrets
00:42:29
buying the house he's somebody you got to look into you got to look into the friends with their drug addiction and
00:42:34
then you got to look into the boyfriend's son that works with her did he have some kind of jealousy issues is
00:42:41
he worried about how his father is paying for things and maybe losing some kind of inheritance down the line
00:42:50
there's a lot of moving pieces a lot of moving Parts a lot of questions that that one could ask let's do a quick
00:42:57
bullet point timeline before we get into the next portion of this story so roughly at 300M she stops at the grocery
00:43:06
store to buy items for the Gathering 3:30 she's at home with her son we know that the washing of the clothes starts
00:43:13
at this time by 5:00 p.m. her guests have arrived to her house at 5:30 we have David her ex-husband who
00:43:25
arrives to pick up their son Jacob within an hour so by 6:30 David leaves the house with Jacob after that it's
00:43:34
just her with her friends and as stated earlier it's believed that around 700 p.m. Crystal asked the guest to leave
00:43:44
because she has that early shift at the diner and there's that exchange of can we borrow some money no you can't and
00:43:52
they are for a lack of better term almost escorted right show the door so at some
00:43:59
point after 700 p.m. Crystal switches her clothes from the washer to the dryer changes into her pajamas we talked about
00:44:06
the lights that she would always purposely leave on or turn on before turning in for the night herself another
00:44:14
part of her routine was she had a dog named Rocky now Rocky would always stay outside that's no way to treat a dog
00:44:24
tethered during the daytime she's busy with her son and with work and she's coming and going he stayed
00:44:32
outside during the daytime but just like turning on those lights or making sure those lights were on before going to bed
00:44:39
Rocky never stays outside overnight she always brings him in to the house once she's settling down for the night so
00:44:49
that he can go to sleep and fall asleep inside the home as well I do want to note some things here too that sunset on
00:44:56
the night of June 2nd 2007 in this area the night question was at 8:37 p.m. this
00:45:04
is where we go to an eyewitness's account of that evening this is eyewitness Michelle who is one of
00:45:12
Crystal's neighbors Michelle's account of the night in question is as follows she says
00:45:20
that she came home around 11: p.m. she stated that she noticed right away that there were no lights on
00:45:27
at Crystal's house Michelle thought that this was unusual but she goes into her house and she has you know her own
00:45:34
family and she goes to bed it sounds like everything remains silent until around 1 a.m. so now we are
00:45:44
at the next morning June 3rd Michelle said that she was awakened by the sound of a car horn blaring she rushed to her
00:45:53
door to see what this car horn was and she doesn't see a vehicle but instead saw smoke filling the
00:46:02
street then she spots a vehicle and there's a couple inside the car that yelled at the
00:46:12
house on the street they're yelling at Crystal's house which is engulfed in flames that's where the Smoke's coming
00:46:22
from so Michelle tells her son to call 911 she goes out side to try to flag down the couple in the car the couple in
00:46:32
the car had seen the smoke from down the block and when they came to investigate
00:46:36
they found Crystal's house smoldering because Crystal's car was in the carport the couple and Michelle they're seeing
00:46:44
the car right Captain they're like oh she's probably in there they rushed to the house and they started looking in
00:46:50
the windows to see if Crystal and or her son is inside of the home right as Michelle went to turn the corner right
00:46:59
so she's running around the corner she's now entering Crystal's backyard she hears Crystal's dog barking near the
00:47:07
carport this is how we know that the dog wasn't let in for the night as said it was common for Crystal
00:47:14
to tie up the dog but bring the dog in that evening and she would always take the dog and leave the dog outside when
00:47:22
she was having guest over so however the the neighbor shelle finds the dog still
00:47:29
outside she turns and now she's worried about the dog she's trying to tend to the dog when she says that she sees a
00:47:38
man standing in the carport there she says that there was nowhere that this man could have come from except for in
00:47:45
the house again this is just her opinion and she's rushing to a scene that's already a little chaotic it's dark out
00:47:54
but it is her opinion that this man the only place he could have come from was from inside of Crystal's home and
00:48:01
because of Michelle's eyewitness account we're going to get a sketch of this individual the first thing I noticed and
00:48:08
I'd like to know some of your thoughts on this but to me if somebody said that's a sketch of a man or that's a
00:48:14
sketch of a woman I I would agree both ways yeah the sketch is not helpful in that regard
00:48:21
however we have the eyewitness saying that that's a man yes the the person I saw was a man and he's standing in the
00:48:29
carport area on Crystal's property Michelle says he was standing right outside the door to Crystal's house this
00:48:38
was the door everyone used to enter and leave the house many people will be familiar with this type of setup your
00:48:45
front door is not always the door that everybody uses to go in and out of your home some people like people to come in
00:48:53
the their garage or come in the side door I've lived than a home with a carport and it was the side door under
00:49:00
the carport that everybody used because that's it was the closest to where the vehicles would arrive some people use
00:49:05
the chimney so she's saying this was the door that everyone used to enter and exit Crystal's house she also says that
00:49:13
this is the door that she would have brought the dog in for the night that Crystal used this door for practically
00:49:19
everything as well Michelle is of course she's startled by this whole situation the the
00:49:26
fire the dog she's tending to the dog the man that's standing in the carport she hands the the leash for the
00:49:36
dog to that man and ask him if he would take the dog away from the house get the
00:49:44
dog to safety makes sense so this person this unidentified man takes the dog walks the dog safely across the street
00:49:54
hands the leash to to a member of Michelle's family and then this member of Michelle's family says that last that
00:50:03
they saw the man he had left the area on foot by way of a large church parking lot that was
00:50:13
behind Michelle's family's house so the person spotted in the carport at the time of the fire was now
00:50:24
gone the fire department was on the scene quickly and started to extinguish the Flames the fire was spreading to
00:50:32
different parts of the house as firefighters entered the kitchen of the house they found Crystal's lifeless body
00:50:39
lying next to the refrigerator near this side door that we've talked about it appeared that Crystal put up a fight and
00:50:47
that she had been struck in the head with a heavy object at first inspection it w it appeared that the fire started
00:50:56
behind the the refrigerator while firefighters and police were on the scene the neighbor Michelle again saw
00:51:04
the suspect who was in the carport earlier now he's standing in the crowd watching the firefighters Michelle
00:51:13
approached the Boiling Springs police that were there and to one officer she says look that man in the crowd there I
00:51:22
saw him earlier he was up here in the carport area as if he had just come out of the house
00:51:29
right unfortunately Michelle would say that the officer ignored her that she at no point that evening saw an officer
00:51:37
approach this man interview this man put him in the back of a squad carard none of that happened according to Michelle
00:51:45
obviously this is somebody that law enforcement would want to talk to but it's not clear to us if this person was
00:51:53
somebody passing by and was just trying to help or were they there for nefarious
00:51:58
reasons it would be easier to figure that out if an officer would have went and spoke to this man yeah or but I
00:52:05
think it I think it's unclear to me and and maybe you could clear this up we don't know if law enforcement ever
00:52:13
contacted this individual or if they have a name so it it does not appear like we said we have a sketch it doesn't
00:52:19
appear that this man has been identified you know they've not given a name to this person yeah cuz this sketch
00:52:26
would not matter at that exactly exactly so what role he played in this is all very difficult to
00:52:36
decipher but part of that too as said is if if and when you were interviewing people that night if he would have been
00:52:46
somebody that you spoke to you would at least know this man's name I don't want to get too aggressive with everybody
00:52:52
because this is a very chaotic scene and at the at the center of it police too are First
00:53:00
Responders they're responding to a scene where they're hoping that if by chance anyone is trapped inside of this home
00:53:08
that First Responders can get them out to safety that's your number one goal when responding to this scene the other
00:53:16
part of this is that sha Petraeus is in the crowd as well we're talking about this crowd that's gathering in the
00:53:22
Street Watching the firefighters attempt to put out fire we know that in the end they're
00:53:30
going to find Crystal's lifeless body inside the home near that side door that we've discussed but in this crowd this
00:53:38
growing crowd one of those persons is Shawn the son of Crystal's boyfriend Johnny now we
00:53:47
said earlier that Shawn was a fire chief he's actually the fire chief of a neighboring fire department so this is
00:53:54
not his jurisdiction however it's believed that he likely heard the call on his department scanner
00:54:02
and knowing the property right they're responding to an address right knowing the property and knowing that his
00:54:10
father's girlfriend lives there likely responded to the scene the reasons for that you would have to ask Shawn well
00:54:19
again this is now the second person in the story where you go is Shawn there to help or is Shawn there there because he
00:54:27
did something bad exactly that is exactly it was he there to observe there to potentially help or his just his
00:54:38
appearance there has led to speculation that he is somehow involved in either the Fire or the murder or both after the
00:54:47
fire was put out and the investigation started a sketch was made of the suspect that appeared in the carport the
00:54:53
detectives asked the couple in the car to help with details of the suspect the couple in the car only saw this person
00:55:00
at a glance however Michelle was with this person directly in front of her for a very short period of time she
00:55:11
gets to see a face to face with this guy she hands him the leash he walks the dog to safety across
00:55:17
the street then disappears into that church parking lot reappearing in the crowd that's growing in front of the
00:55:24
house as the firefighters are attempting to put out the fire we will say this though Michelle has been vocal about
00:55:32
this there is that sketch that's out there Michelle when she sees the sketch that was put together produced by the
00:55:39
police department she says that she immediately told the officer there that there were a number of things incorrect
00:55:47
with this sketch the officer informed her that they were using the sketch anyway Michelle also had seen the
00:55:55
carport suspect one other time she says the morning after the fire while she was
00:56:02
at work her coworker was dropped off by the person that she says is the man that
00:56:09
she saw in the carport the night before that's pretty freaking weird so she calls police immediately what did she
00:56:18
call them and says look that man who I was wondering who he was standing in the carport just dropped off my coworker
00:56:27
this morning at work so it's never been released here Captain but if this person is one in the same
00:56:35
right we don't know for certain 100% certainty that this man is the man that she saw in the carport but Michelle says
00:56:43
that it is so if this man is one and the same it sounds to me like Michelle and the police know this person's identity
00:56:52
let me get Captain Obvious for a second during the their investigation do they find this to be an accidental fire or do
00:57:00
they believe this was arson 100% arson winner winter chicken Di and the other thing that's tricky about this fire is
00:57:08
that it's been stated and I want to be clear about something here there is information in this case like every
00:57:18
other case that we review but this case specifically there's information in this
00:57:23
case that either a the police do not know or B they know this information and they're choosing to not make it public
00:57:31
you are putting a sketch out there to the world asking for people to come forward and assist you the public to
00:57:40
assist your department in this case we know that to be fact because you've released a sketch this case it I don't
00:57:49
care what local police are calling it this is a cold case this is an old case there's no purpose in withholding any
00:57:58
information you need to if you have information that you've built a case against somebody take it to a grand jury
00:58:06
or if you're not going to do that release that information hoping that you get better and more
00:58:12
information on your case the difficult thing I think here with Crystal is she would have came in contact with a lot of
00:58:19
individuals we already stated that there's kind of a stalking situation between her and one of her friends
00:58:26
and also when she was attending school did she meet anybody else and is there a possibility that she was having her cake
00:58:35
and eat it too I mean I know there's no hardcore evidence that we were able to uncover but is it possible with having a
00:58:44
relationship where there's a big age Gap that she was using that relationship as
00:58:51
a financial gain and possibly seeing somebody else these are questions that I think are not out of bounds for law
00:58:59
enforcement to be thinking about or asking about exactly and because they've not released certain information in this
00:59:05
case we do not know where their investigation took them if anybody's been cleared the thing that is obvious
00:59:11
to me though Captain is as said there's no reason for them not to know the name of the person in the carport if in fact
00:59:19
Michelle was correct the following day when she says the person I saw last night twice I saw again a third time
00:59:27
when he was dropping off my coworker the next morning at work so that person the
00:59:35
police know that individual's name what does that mean it's hard for us to say have they interviewed this person is
00:59:42
this person considered a person of interest or is it somebody that they've dismissed completely with either a not
00:59:49
looking at him or having looked at him and have having cause for dismissing him as a good suspect what we do know is
00:59:57
they're still asking about the person in the sketch so that's a little bit difficult that's a that's a hurdle that
01:00:04
is difficult for us to clear here well it makes you wonder if she thinks the person that was dropping off her friend
01:00:13
at work if that was a dead end lead and it was not the same guy it seems like why would they keep bringing up the
01:00:20
sketch if they knew who he was and they already talked to this individual but I think we both agree on some level you
01:00:28
have to start going hold back information that's responsible but at some point when the investigation's not
01:00:35
going anywhere when is the hold back information irresponsible to keep away from the public well and this in its
01:00:45
most simplest of forms is as follows this person Michelle has stated I saw this guy the only place he could
01:00:53
have come from was the home that was burning with the dead body inside of it makes sense that is her opinion yeah her
01:01:01
other opinion is the guy that I saw on the carport was the man that dropped off my coworker the next day this just
01:01:08
really bizarre and police are still asking the public for help with that sketch yeah weird it this seems this
01:01:17
seems like an easier an easier road to a a solution than what I think some people might be
01:01:24
making it but we've heard heard this a million times from law enforcement we know who did it we know why they did it
01:01:32
we just don't think we have enough evidence to prove it in a court of law and that's what matters because you need
01:01:39
to get this scumbag piece of [ __ ] off the streets get him off the streets with her
01:01:46
friends in regard to Crystal's friends Ashley and Annette have they've been in trouble with the law prior to Crystal
01:01:54
Bradshaw being murdered have been in trouble with the law after and some information that has come
01:02:03
out in this case that I find to be very intriguing is a rumor and we've seen we've seen
01:02:12
this work in some cases where eventually they get solved and some of the rumors that were first out on the streets in
01:02:20
the town shortly after a murder turn out to be true one of the those rumors is that the
01:02:29
object that Crystal had been killed with remember she was beaten to death somebody had struck her with a heavy
01:02:40
object yeah piece of [ __ ] leading to injuries and then leading to her death the local rumor was and has been since
01:02:50
early on in this case that it was a clock one of those like small clocks that you put on the shelf or you you
01:02:56
hang on the wall I don't know the exact details about this clock but the other rumor that goes along with that clock
01:03:03
being what was used to hit to strike Crystal with is that some believe that that's where she stashed cash and
01:03:11
remember it was always said that her boyfriend was giving her hundreds of dollars in cash weekly daily well this
01:03:19
adds up after a while and if she's stashing cash around the house and then we have friends are over prior to her
01:03:27
being killed and the house being set on fire and part of that story and that visit is that one of them either for
01:03:35
themselves or collectively for the group asked to borrow some money and they were
01:03:40
denied and they were denied did they decide to come back at some point and just take the money
01:03:45
anyway was there a struggle over that clock that concealed the cash was I I if both things are true
01:03:55
it's really difficult for me to believe that that money has nothing to do with her murder either there was money there
01:04:03
and it was taken because what's been reported is that there was no money found inside the house no cash money
01:04:08
except for a roll of quarters that was found inside that house after the fire the tough thing becomes here though the
01:04:15
more people involved the more likely somebody is willing to talk at some point and as far as I know they're not
01:04:23
talking and if they have their statements have not been made public what we're left with is a woman who is
01:04:32
killed inside of her home and then the house is set on fire the fire and the onlooker of Johnny's son Shawn the
01:04:42
neighboring fire chief being present there who worked at the diner himself being in the crowd that night is always
01:04:49
going to tie him to this case as a potential Person of Interest her friends all four of them that were there that
01:04:57
evening have to always be linked as a potential Person of Interest or Persons of Interest who could have acted
01:05:05
together right and maybe when this went down my the way that I Envision this Captain is if this was about the money
01:05:13
and I have no reason to think that it wasn't if this was about the money there was some kind of fight some kind of
01:05:19
struggle over the money one that the perpetrator or perpetrators may not have intended or believed would happen maybe
01:05:27
they thought they would just be handed cash and they would go on their way but something happened and they may the
01:05:33
person responsible or person's responsible may not have intended to kill Crystal that evening maybe didn't
01:05:39
leave their house going to Crystal's house thinking that they would kill her that night but whatever happened led to
01:05:46
her death and then later they got a problem they got to cover up and their their way
01:05:51
of covering this up is by setting the house on fire it's believed everything that I've seen shows me that
01:05:58
the the fire started near this refrigerator or behind the refrigerator I've wondered does this show some kind
01:06:07
of knowledge of fires you have electrical fires you have appliances that start fires would this
01:06:15
be something that somebody has experience with fires attempt to do hoping that maybe well the house and the body would
01:06:23
be burned beyond recognition and so they might maybe the authorities would just think she died in the house fire that
01:06:30
was caused by faulty wiring or a bad Appliance and I hate when the cases get to this point because in my
01:06:40
mind if somebody said Captain what's your thoughts which probably nobody would ask me my thoughts CU they're
01:06:47
smart enough to know that I'm just going to ramble but i' go your guess is as good as mine I see multiple people that
01:06:55
have motives multiple people that have means I think the one that possibly you could rule out is the ex-husband they
01:07:03
were separated for a time period he had his son we haven't had anybody come forward saying I was watching his son
01:07:11
that night and he disappeared for an hour yeah I think because he comes off well and if everything if all the
01:07:19
allegations are true he's not a good guy and because of the close relationship with the deceased and him not being a
01:07:26
good guy he's obviously somebody that is openly discussed as a potential suspect
01:07:31
here amongst the public but this case as we said is a cold case and there is a new Cold Case
01:07:39
Investigator in the area his name is Sergeant Tony Brown he was on the scene the night that Crystal was murdered the
01:07:48
night that she was discovered in that burning home in 2021 we get this announcement it's the announcement of a
01:07:59
$25,000 reward in this unsolved homicide case and I want to read for you their statement it says Crystal Bradshaw was
01:08:08
found murdered in her home on June 3rd 2007 at 107 North Brook Street in Boiling Springs this is located off of
01:08:18
Highway 9 between Northbrook Baptist Church and Raceway the fire department was called by someone that noticed the
01:08:26
fire coming from the home in the early morning of June 3rd we believe the murder took place in the late evening
01:08:34
hours on June 2nd she had only lived in her home for 4 months with her young son
01:08:40
after separating from her husband he was keeping their child that night at his home since Crystal had to get up early
01:08:47
for work she was 28 years old and working as a waitress at the Peach Blossom Restaurant she worked the
01:08:55
morning shift and also attended Spartansburg Community College the night of the homicide an unknown person was
01:09:02
seen in the carport of the home when it was engulfed and the neighbors were gathering trying to help this person
01:09:08
left the scene before the fire trucks and police arrived we have a composite of this person and believe they may have
01:09:16
useful information for this case we would like to announce for the 14y year anniversary a 25
01:09:25
reward that has been donated anonymously we hope this will encourage those that have information to come forward the
01:09:33
reward money is being offered for one year for the person that gives information that leads to the arrest and
01:09:40
prosecution of the suspect we feel confident that others know details that will solve this case
01:09:48
that to me is a is the statement that I want to hear right there now mind you this reward was offered up $25,000 for
01:09:57
one year that year came and went they did not reward this money to anyone currently Captain if anybody has
01:10:06
information in this case please reach out to Tony Brown of the Spartanburg County Sheriff's department at tbrown
01:10:13
Spartanburg count.org and we will include this information in our show notes or you can call the
01:10:21
unsolved homicide unit at 86453 4556 I also want to point this out too you know the the victims here it always
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goes beyond the person that was killed right I review a case like this and it's very difficult for me to walk away and
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say Ashley knows nothing Annette knows nothing it's very hard for me to say that I'm not willing to say that in this
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case I think one or both of them know something I think the police are of that belief as well the statement in that in
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that reward offering we feel confident that others know details that will solve this case how did that person seen in
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the carport get to her home were they already there for a gathering or for other
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reasons how were they traveling alone or with somebody else did they leave by themselves or with somebody else these
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are all questions that have answers and those answers could lead to the truth about who killed Crystal Bradshaw after
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his mother's murder Little Jacob went to live with his father in a nearby Town Jacob has never had any contact with his
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aunt or other family members on Crystal's side beyond the interaction that he had a few months after his
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mother was murdered so this family Crystal's Family not only did did they lose Crystal but
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they lost Jacob as well the family would welcome the opportunity to speak to Jacob if Jacob is listening please
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contact this podcast for their contact information as they miss you very much anybody with information about the case
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about the murder of Crystal Bradshaw should contact Tony Brown of the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Department
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